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Bloomberg has recently discovered that with the passage of the $787 billion stimulus package, the federal government is now on the hook for $9.7 trillion in direct bailouts and associated government guarantees. Add to that Geithner’s $1-$2 trillion and another $275 billion to help the housing crisis, and you get pretty close to $12 trillion [...]

In my big picture assessment, I look at the world markets by looking at the performance of various ETFs that represent the markets. And I used to believe that ETFs were great trading vehicles to own long term. However, its recently come to my attention that sometimes ETFs do not actually own what they are [...]

A VERY IMPORTANT article by Chris at The Tycoon Report. Read this and take appropriate action. If he’s right, you can be defensive by playing BOTH sides of the market with strategic option strategies.
Excerpt:
The market will most likely break new lows and scare the daylights out of most of us once again. Today I’ll give [...]

Here is a very interesting article written by Justice Litle, Editorial Director ofTaipan Publishing Group that explains the relationship between “credit flow” and “risk appetite” as it applies to “Booms and Busts” like I have never seen before!
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Great article by R.J. Hixson in the latest www.iitm.com newsletter with Van K. Tharp.
Excerpt:
My emotions used to be driven by what the market was doing. Volatility was good and smooth periods were bad (it meant waiting patiently or impatiently). By trying to call market turning points, I would be elated when I caught them or [...]

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Here is an iteresting article from our friends at www.investmentu.com(don’t forget to sign up for the FREE newsletter)
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“…the same manager that runs the USO fund runs another exchange traded security thats custom designed to benefit from situations like the crude oil contango. Its called the United States 12 Month Oil Fund (NYSE: USL). It uses [...]

Probably obvious… but still a good article from Travis at www.stockgumshoe.com
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A great article from Gary D. halbert on some of the downfalls to a buy and hold strategy!
“In light of a second bear market within eight years that has (again!) decimated the retirement savings of the Baby Boom generation, it’s not much of a stretch to think the investment strategy that allowed the whims of [...]

Here is a very interesting article from Tyler at www.stockscores.com about the importance of stock prices, v.s. just using technical indicators. It also includes a couple of pics, one of which (Silver Wheaton) that i have some call options on right now.
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This is an article from a trader i greatly admire, Chris from ‘the tycoon report’. He provides a very important technical analysis overview for today’s market you must read.
A couple excerpts stand out:
“I’m hoping that, by the time you read this, the market is rallying in celebration of the inauguration because that will give you [...]

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“Speaking of looking in the right places, Im relieved to finally have a few more details to work with on the newest, bestest stimulus package. Congress is now getting into the act with an $825 billion stimulus bill they revealed on Thursday. If lawmakers can expedite this [...]

Thanks to M.G. for forwarding this one!
“If these managers are not focused on preservation of capital, they should not have the right to manage other people’s money”
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